He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

The `` Barre Aviation Field '' was set to receive its first aircraft the Sunday following the flood.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

During World War II, Abadan was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.

As a response armour plating was added to aircraft to protect aircrew and vulnerable areas such as fuel tanks and engine.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Spraying was usually done either from helicopters or from low-flying C-123 Provider aircraft, fitted with sprayers and " MC-1 Hourglass " pump systems and chemical tanks.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

But at the speed of sound this can no longer happen, and the air which was previously following the streamline around the aircraft now hits it directly.

The sound barrier was broken using the Bell X-1 aircraft twelve years later, thanks in part to those individuals.

Computational fluid dynamics was started as an effort to solve for flow properties around complex objects and has rapidly grown to the point where entire aircraft can be designed using a computer, with wind-tunnel tests followed by flight tests to confirm the computer predictions.

The P < small >< sub > k </ sub ></ small > ( kill probability ) of the AIM-7E was less than 10 %; US fighter pilots shot down 55 aircraft using the Sparrow.

Its worst tendency was that of detonating prematurely, approximately a thousand feet in front of the launching aircraft, but it also had many motor failures, erratic flights, and fuzing problems.

The third combat use of the AMRAAM was in 1994, when a Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb aircraft was shot down by a USAF F-16C that was patrolling the UN-imposed no-fly-zone over Bosnia.

The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.

In 2004, following an air strikes on French peacekeepers by Ivorian forces, the French military destroyed all aircraft in the Air Force of Côte d ' Ivoire.

As a result, during the early months of these campaigns, Axis air forces destroyed large numbers of Red Air Force aircraft on the ground and in one-sided dogfights.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

Allied military action to enforce the ceasefire commenced the same day when a French aircraft opened fire and destroyed a vehicle on the ground.

All combat aircraft of the Libyan Air Force that were not in the rebel forces ' hands were destroyed by NATO bombings during the civil war, effectively leading to the destruction of the Libyan Air Force.

946 aircraft were also destroyed in these accidents.

* 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

To this end, all civilian shipyards and aircraft factories were to be dismantled or otherwise destroyed.

The aircraft would be equipped with the latest in electronics and communications equipment so that it would be able to assume control of all of SAC's bomber, aerial refueling and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as SAC's land-based intercontiental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) force and the U. S. Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarine force in the event SAC headquarters was destroyed.

The report also noted that " several aircraft have been destroyed and at least four pilots have been killed ' chasing UFOs '.

The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.

Two Ivorian Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft and several Mil Mi-24 helicopters were destroyed, which was most of the country's air forces.

It fought in three campaigns on behalf of the Soviet Union between 22 March 1943, and 9 May 1945, during which time it destroyed 273 enemy aircraft and received numerous orders, citations and decorations from both France and the Soviet Union, including the French Légion d ’ Honneur and the Soviet Order of the Red Banner.

On 16 October, the first day of a new offensive against East Prussia, the regiment ’ s pilots claimed 29 enemy aircraft destroyed without loss.

The dam, built in 1914, was bombed and destroyed by British aircraft in May 1943, causing massive destruction and approximately 70 deaths downstream, but was rebuilt within four months.

After the war, the combat aircraft featured in the film were being destroyed and disassembled for reuse as scrap material.

According to local residents and unnamed American and Yemeni government officials, on 14 July 2011 US manned aircraft or drones attacked and destroyed a police station in Mudiya in Abyan Province which had been occupied by al Qaeda militants.

Telemetry is vital in the development of missiles, satellites and aircraft because the system might be destroyed during or after the test.

Several aircraft are destroyed and others are forced to land, where the pilots are interrogated for information regarding the cartel.

In North Africa, in the fifteen months before Stirling's capture, the SAS had destroyed over 250 aircraft on the ground, dozens of supply dumps, wrecked railways and telecommunications, and had put hundreds of enemy vehicles out of action.

The pilot landed the damaged aircraft but it was destroyed in the resulting somersault.

An accident in which the damage to the aircraft is such that it must be written off, or in which the plane is destroyed is called a hull loss accident.